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Friday, January 9
Today's Hours:

  
Central 9am-6pm
East 9am-6pm
McCollough 9am-6pm
North Park 9am-6pm
Oaklyn 9am-6pm
Red Bank 9am-6pm
Stringtown 9am-6pm
West 9am-6pm

 

Evansville Historical Maps Online

1888

Perspective map of the city of Evansville, Ind. By H. Wellge, American Publishing Co. of Milwaukee -- hand-drawn buildings, not always drawn to scale, includes insets of Business Mens Ass'n, City Call, County Court House, Heilman Plow Works, Heilman Machine Works, Armstrong furniture, Geo. P. Heilman & Co Hominy Mills, Melzer & Co Soap Factory, Puster & Co furniture, State Asylum for the Insane, RR bridge on Ohio, F. W. Cook Brewing C, Read, McCoy & Co and 37 other buildings identified, public schools, churches, Hose Houses, hospitals, Custom House, Cotton mills, RR lines, streetcar lines, coal mines (go to  the Library of Congress's American Memory site http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html, choose "maps" and then "Maps and Cartographic Items" instead of "Panographic maps" - enter Evansville in geographic index)

1890

Evansville, Indiana compiled by J.D. and M.C. Saunders - shows streets, RR, public buildings, cemeteries, parks, Sweezer pond, Lamasco Wharf, Salt Wells Park, Home for the Friendless, Ev. Cotton Mills, orphanages, suburban plat lines with owners names - sheet 5 has numbered list of Public Buildings, Schools, Churches, Halls, Depots, Hotels (go to http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/HIM/ and search for Evansville)

1898

Geological map of the Coal Region of Indiana (Sheet G) Posey and Vanderburgh Counties and part of Gibson Co by G.H. Ashley, Wm B Burford, Lith. - shows cities, post offices, major roads, rail and water features, section numbers, coal openings & stripings or outcrops, elevation of coal, quarries (go to http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/HIM&CISOPTR=174&CISOBOX=1&REC=14 [in the Historic Indiana Map Collection (Digital Collections of IUPUI)]

1909

Vanderburgh County Soil Map - shows soil types, cites, townships, railroad lines, major roads (go to http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/HIM&CISOPTR=249&CISOBOX=1&REC=15 [in the Historic Indiana Map Collection (Digital Collections of IUPUI)]

1911-14

Evansville Riverfront - Ohio River: Pittsburgh, PA to mouth, Chart 213-220 by Ohio River Board of Engineers on Locks and Dams, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army -- showing riverfront streets, rural landowners, Coal Mine Hill, Howell Yards, L&N stations, cotton mills, Helfrich Lumber, Custom House, hospital, Evansville Railways, Sunset Park, Waterworks, State Line Monument, Three Mile Island, Angel Farm, Henderson Island, Henderson Bridge (search "Ohio River" for charts 213-220 at http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalcollections/search.html , from 3 Mile Island/Angel farm/Warrick Co to Henderson Island/Henderson Bridge/ Vanderburgh Co)

1920?

Vanderburgh County Plat Maps by W. W. Hixson & Co. - shows towns, township boundaries, section numbers, plats, (go to http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/IndianaPlat/ [in the Indiana Plat Books Collection in the Digital Collections of IUPUI -- Choose v. 6, pp. 40-48])

2001

plat map with street index, subdivisions index - also Assesment Database, Sales Database link to aerial photos with index by street address, owners' name at http://www.assessor.evansville.net

2002

GIS Atlas for Southwestern Indiana by John C. Steinmetz, Denver Harper and A. Chris Walls, Published by Indiana Geological Survey [8 CD-Roms + manual -filed under Shoah Testimonies also at http://igs.indiana.edu/arcims/southwest/index.html

2001/2005

Aerial photos - http://www.evansvillegis.com/ links aerial photos to info from Area Plan Commission, Co. Assessor, E. Building Commission, Co. Election Results, Heavy Trash Pickup, Co. Highway Vehicle Locator, E. MPO (road projects, truck routes), E. Police, Co. Surveyor, E Urban Forestry

2005

Aerial photos with massive databases linked at www.indianamap.org (We have cd for Vanderburgh Co waiting to be cataloged by TSD -10/4/06)